While the Jubilee Party is already set for the next general
election with their presidential flag bearer as Uhuru Kenyatta, CORD is still
undecided on who their presidential candidate will be.
The affiliate parties are still flying around the country
like hawks in the guise of wooing support from their skeptics.
However, it is worth noting that time is running out fast
and it might be too late for them to appreciate the sense of early presidential
candidate endorsement.
There is much that needs to be done in this marriage right
now, just before the 2017 General Election.
We do not need to be rocket scientists to know the discourse
in the coalition currently.
Every party within the alliance is busy drumming up support
for their candidate with serious ultimatums to the coalition's leader, Raila
Odinga, to pass over the baton to someone else.
Any average mind would think this is a normal narrative; but
there is more than meets the eye.
Nobody among the three co-principals is willing to step down
for another to face Uhuru for the presidency.
Inter-party squabbles are almost at fever-pitch. All the
three principals are optimistic about their chances of becoming the man to lock
horns with the incumbent at the ballot.
In fact, some ODM proponents have begun to imagine further
that they can win the race with just the party minus the coalition.
These are fresh wounds that must be dressed with the proper
sense of dispatch they deserve, before they open further.
The bravado might not prove healthy in the long run simply
because of the "coalition's deliberate fear" to endorse their
presidential candidate.
This decisional laxity might not augur well with the wrath
of time, at least given the length of the period before the election.
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